Connecticut · Nonprofit
Friendship Service Center Inc
Friendship Service Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,484,972 to it, the largest being JOURNEY HOME INC ($2,920,379). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Friendship Service Center Inc does
Mission
Friendship Service Center makes love visible through compassionate, person-centered services for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Friendship Service Center, Inc. envisions a Greater New Britain community where everyone has a safe, affordable home and episodes of hunger and homelessness are brief and non-recurring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive Housing: PEAK (People Empowered by Achievement and Knowledge) and HAL (Home At Last) programs offer subsidized housing vouchers to formerly homeless individuals or families so that they may live in apartments scattered throughout the Greater New Britain area while receiving case management services. Certificates are currently available for 33 apartments through PEAK and 10 apartments through HAL; participants pay one-third of their income for rent and the program pays the rest. ASH (Arch Street Housing) and Howey House are two buildings where formerly homeless individuals or families live in their own apartments within a communal building where on-site case management is offered to support self-sufficiency. Arch Street Housing consists of 21 one- two- and three-bedroom apartments for families and individual adults at 59 and 85 Arch Street in New Britain. Howey House consists of 11 efficiency or one-bedroom units for individual adults at 180 North Street in New Britain. We served 120 people from 83 households in FY25 through these programs.
$1,799,586 spentof which $500,541 as grants$43,214 earned by the program41% of program spendingInterim Housing: Our 37-bed Emergency Shelter for individual adults and families with children, and our Transitional Living Program for 10 homeless youth (ages 18-24), are located in our Virginia C. Davis Building. Since September 2023, we also have opened 4 respite beds for individual adults experiencing homelessness that are frequent users of Hospital of Central CT services. We served 124 people from 99 households through our Emergency Shelter program; 44 youth through our Transitional Living program; and 28 people in our medical respite program in FY25.
$993,906 spent23% of program spendingHope Connection Center: Hope Connection Center is a drop-in center for people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness in Central CT at 61 Arch St, New Britain. The project is a community partnership with a number of agencies in the region to offer leveraged services like financial literacy, substance use recovery support, mental health, and employment, supplementing the resources HCC offers, such as showers and laundry. We served 710 people from 672 households in FY25 through this program.
$1,484,969 spent34% of program spendingSOAR: SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) aims to increase access to the disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for eligible adults who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of experiencing homelessness and have a mental illness and/or a substance use disorder. We served 29 people from 29 households in FY25 through this program.
$117,963 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,396,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $13M to $15M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 91% · 2021 87% · 2022 86% · 2023 88% · 2024 82% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Friendship Service Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Caitlin Rose
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $135k → $1.0M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Friendship Service Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Friendship Service Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Friendship Service Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 80% · 2022 70% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of Friendship Service Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of Friendship Service Center Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $688k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Friendship Service Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Friendship Service Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.3M on record — $11.5M federal, $10.8M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$848k
- Department of Homeland Security$7k
- Client Services-General$4.7M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$3.1M
- State Aid Grants$2.7M
- ARPA Beneficiary Award$300k
- Reimbursements$9k
- Client Subsidies$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Friendship Service Center Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friendship Service Center Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friendship Service Center Inc?
- Friendship Service Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,484,972 to it, the largest being JOURNEY HOME INC ($2,920,379). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friendship Service Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,484,972 in grants to Friendship Service Center Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friendship Service Center Inc?
- JOURNEY HOME INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,920,379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friendship Service Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing